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Upper limb erythema nodosum: the first presentation of Crohn's disease

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Inflammatory bowel disease can present with extraintestinal features as the patient's only complaint. The erythema nodosum (EN) initially affected the upper limbs only, reminding us that signs do not always present in a classical fashion. The presence of EN should prompt t...

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Autor principal: Faulkes, R E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25614807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.87
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description KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Inflammatory bowel disease can present with extraintestinal features as the patient's only complaint. The erythema nodosum (EN) initially affected the upper limbs only, reminding us that signs do not always present in a classical fashion. The presence of EN should prompt the clinician to look for any underlying cause.
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spelling pubmed-43026212015-01-22 Upper limb erythema nodosum: the first presentation of Crohn's disease Faulkes, R E Clin Case Rep Case Reports KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Inflammatory bowel disease can present with extraintestinal features as the patient's only complaint. The erythema nodosum (EN) initially affected the upper limbs only, reminding us that signs do not always present in a classical fashion. The presence of EN should prompt the clinician to look for any underlying cause. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-10 2014-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4302621/ /pubmed/25614807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.87 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Upper limb erythema nodosum: the first presentation of Crohn's disease
title_full Upper limb erythema nodosum: the first presentation of Crohn's disease
title_fullStr Upper limb erythema nodosum: the first presentation of Crohn's disease
title_full_unstemmed Upper limb erythema nodosum: the first presentation of Crohn's disease
title_short Upper limb erythema nodosum: the first presentation of Crohn's disease
title_sort upper limb erythema nodosum: the first presentation of crohn's disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25614807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.87
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